Get To Know Your Professional Self (Again) And The Rest Will Follow

In this piece, I talk about the importance of getting to know your professional self as the first step to rebuilding your career. I tell my personal story of how this revelation hit me while enjoying a boat party with other parents. Over the next ten months, I went through an introspection process to understand my vision of myself as a professional: “This involved me not just thinking about my skills and qualifications but also carefully considering what I wanted to get out of a job at this particular time in my life.”